Nicola Alaimo - Don Pomponio Storione

One of the leading artists of his generation Nicola Alaimo recently gained great successes at the Teatro Regio in Turin (Sir Riccardo Forth, I Puritani; Gérmont, Traviata) at the Salzburg Festival (Dandini, La Cenerentola), at the Rossini Opera Festival, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie Brussels, at the Concertgebow in Amsterdam Opéra de Monte Carlo and Paris-TCE (Guillaume Tell - title role), at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (Don Pasquale - title role; Rimbaud, Comte Ory), at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome (Attila, Ezio, cond. Riccardo Muti and Don Pasquale, cond. Bruno Campanella), in London (Belisario - title role, recorded by Opera Rara) at the Opéra de Paris (Dandini, La Cenerentola; Fra Melitone, La Forza del Destino), at the Teatro Real de Madrid (Don Pasquale, cond. Riccardo Muti; Gianni Schicchi), at the Opéra de Monte Carlo (Stankar, Stiffelio cond. Maurizio Benini), at the Metropolitan Opera (Falstaff, cond. James Levine, L'Elisir d'Amore, cond. Maurizio Benini), in Berlin (L'Elisir d'Amore).

Future plans include:  Falstaff  (title role) and La Cena delle Beffe at La Scala in Milan; I Puritani in Madrid; Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Paris (Opéra National); Leoncavallo’s Zazà and Bellini’s Adelson e Salvini in London (concerts and recordings for Opera Rara) while at the Opera House Covent Garden he will perform La Traviata; Simon Boccanegra (title role) in Antwerp and Luxemburg; Don Quichotte (title role) at the Lyric Opera in Chicago; Il Trovatore and I Masnadieri in Monte Carlo; Rossini’s Stabat Mater in Santander; L’Italiana in Algeri and other important future productions at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Raffaella Lupinacci - Doralice

Young up-and-coming Italian mezzo, Raffaella Lupinacci is a prizewinner of the 2013 AsLiCo Competition. Ms. Lupinacci made her operatic debut in 2011 as Tisbe in Rossini’s Cenerentola and in Verdi’s Rigoletto at Teatro “A. Rendano” in Cosenza. She attended the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro in 2012, making her debut as Marchesa Melibea in Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims. She was reinvited in Pesaro in 2013 for L’Italiana in Algeri. She sang: Mary in Der Fliegende Hollaender for the AsLiCo Opera Domani project, which toured many theaters in Northern Italy; Maometto II (Calbo) on tour in Switzerland; Rossini’s Otello and a Verdi Gala in Antwerp; Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle in Saint-Etienne under Alberto Zedda. She made her debut in the Circuito Lirico Lombardo singing in Rossini’s Tancredi (Tancredi and Isaura) and in Verdi’s Otello (Emilia) and was then reinvited the following year to sing Fenena in Nabucco. She made her debut as Dorabella in Così fan Tutte in Vicenza and appeared in Aureliano in Palmira at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and in La Forza del Destino at the Festival Verdi in Parma and at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. Ms. Lupinacci recently made her debut as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni in Modena, Piacenza and Lucca and Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome.

Plans include:   Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni in Trieste; Dimitri in Fedora at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; Madama Butterfly and Jenufa at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.

Andrea Vincenzo Bonsignore - Monsù Traversen

Young baritone he graduated at the G. Verdi conservatoire in Milan; he took part at the Académie Européenne de Musique in Aix-en-Provence, where he performed Leporello in Don Giovanni.

Amongst his recent engagements it is worth mentioning: Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Così fan tutte for AsLiCo circuit in Italy; Schaunard in La Bohème  under the baton of Donato Renzetti and Hanezò in L’amico Fritz under Fabrizio Maria Carminati, conducting; Signor Bruschino at the Rossini Opera Festival; Don Carlo at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under Zubin Metha; Moralès in Carmen in Livorno, Lucca, Pisa and Fano; Die Lustige Witwe at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona; Belcore in L’elisir d’Amore at the Municipale di Piacenza and in Ravenna, Leo Nucci directing. Plans include a new production of Il Turco in Italia in Piacenza and Ravenna; Le Nozze di Figaro (Conte d’Almaviva) in Tenerife; La Cenerentola (Dandini) at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.